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Prof. Acabado Highlights Community-Centered Dialogues at the Global Indigeneity Conference

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The Global Indigeneity Conference, held from August 22-25, 2024, in Banaue, Ifugao, brought together over 90 participants from across the globe, including representatives from the Philippines, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the USA. This unique gathering of scholars, Indigenous leaders, and advocates provided a critical platform to address the urgent challenges facing Indigenous communities […]

Zion Mengesha – The Acoustical Society of America Podcast

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Zion Mengesha in collaboration with Dr. Michelle Cohn, who works at Google, was interviewed by The Acoustical Society of America on their official podcast, Across Acoustics, to talk about our recent publication in JASA Express letters and why speech recognition systems fail to understand speakers of African American English. It was released just yesterday. Follow this link […]

Molly Fox – “Contact with caregivers is associated with composition of the infant gastrointestinal microbiome in the first 6 months of life”

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Little is known about how physical contact at birth and early caregiving environments influence the colonization of the infant gastrointestinal microbiome. We investigated how infant contact with caregivers at birth and within the first 2 weeks of life relates to the composition of the gastrointestinal microbiome in a sample of U.S. infants (n = 60).   Discussion Results […]

Molly Fox: “Mothers’ Prenatal Distress Accelerates Adrenal Pubertal Development in Daughters”

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Human life history schedules vary, partly, because of adaptive, plastic responses to early-life conditions. Little is known about how prenatal conditions relate to puberty timing. We hypothesized that fetal exposure to adversity may induce an adaptive response in offspring maturational tempo. In a longitudinal study of 253 mother-child dyads followed for 15 years, we investigated […]

Jason de León: Soldiers and Kings

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Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers–or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire […]

National Greek Press Featuring Graduate Student Paul Melas

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Graduate Student Paul Melas’ recent conference presentation on the monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece, was covered by the National Greek press * agency and a dozen other Greek news outlets. Melas’s intensive 18-month field research challenged the longstanding perception that the thousand-year-old monastic community is insulated from global networks and contemporary complex social problems– poverty, disease, marginalization, […]

Department of Anthropology: Applications for Tenure-Track Linguistic Anthropology Now Open

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University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure track, open-rank position in linguistic anthropology at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor; applicant must have Ph.D. in hand at time of application. We welcome applicants across disciplines whose research engages with the study of language use in context, and […]

Anthrodorphins: Anthropology Teaching Channel

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Robert Lemelson created a new Anthropology YouTube Channel called Anthrodorphins, which utilizes a wide range of material ( ethnographic film, docs, graphics, and material from my ethnographic films and library) to explore a range of topics relevant to teaching anthropology. They have released about a dozen short pieces. Each week they will release another film for […]

Professor Brian Wood interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered for his research on human-bird communication just published in Science.

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A wild African bird that will famously lead people to trees filled with honeycomb seems to somehow learn the distinct whistles and calls of the human foragers who live near them. Scientists have long puzzled over this unusual cooperative relationship between humans and a wild animal. This bird species, the Greater Honeyguide, is not domesticated […]

Department of Anthropology: Accepting Applications for Teaching in Summer 2024

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If you are interested in applying to teach, you must have either one academic year (three academic quarters or two semesters) of collegiate or university teaching experience or your doctorate. Please submit a 1-page cover letter listing each of the courses you are interested in, a current CV, and teaching evaluations. Please include a sample […]